EL SALVADOR: Mail for the Embassy

El Salvador inaugurated last week its
new, non-popular President, mummy-faced General Salvador Castaneda
Castro, chosen in a one-candidate election. The crowds in the streets
were small and cheerless. Beside the new President stood the savage
little Dictator, outgoing President Osmin Aguirre.

When El Salvador last year overthrew her Theosophist-Dictator
Maximiliano Martinez, she breathed a brief moment of freedom. It ended
when Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of
Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere
(except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize
him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's...